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Wifredo Lam by Way of an Afrofuturist Graffiti Artist
PARIS — Wifredo Lam’s hot, hybrid style is essentially spiky.
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A Publisher of Artist’s Books That Isn't Bound by Convention
For over 30 years Granary Books, under the direction of Steve Clay, has explored the possibilities and limits of artist’s books and collaborative publishing.
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Learning to Read Objects Like Letters
PHILADELPHIA — The “I”-shaped table is set up as if it contained a presentation of recently excavated artifacts.
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Painted Colors in Conflicted Motion
Sometime in late 1997, at the former site of the New Museum, I was introduced to a seemingly dejected young painter named Odili Donald Odita.
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Revisiting a Canadian Icon's Nationalist Landscapes, in the US
LOS ANGELES — Unless you’re Canadian or an art historian, chances are you’ve never heard of the Group of Seven.
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The Asia Pacific Triennial Chooses the Margins as a Radical Space
BRISBANE, Australia — Suppressed voices, marginalized histories, and public spaces take center stage at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial.
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The Delicate and Daring Works of a Forgotten 17th-Century Japanese Painter
WASHINGTON, DC — Over the course of his career in the 17th century, the Japanese painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu produced a large body of intricate and decorative works on paper.
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The Ghosts, Mermaids, and Beautiful Rats of Japan's Tiny Netsuke Carvings
Miniature meditating skeletons, snarling cats, eerie ghosts, and gods of fortune carved in ivory, wood, and horn adorned the sashes of Japanese men throughout the Edo period.
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From Challenging Kant to Elevating Moss, an Artist Upends Hierarchies
MINNEAPOLIS — With just four shapes made out of crude line drawings, Andrea Büttner captures the essence of shame.
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A Survey of New Finnish Paintings Transcends Stereotypes
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Dark Days, Bright Nights, an exhibition of recent Finnish paintings curated by Barbara O'Brien for the Kemper Museum, is a stirring reminder of how culturally under-represented that nation remains even in the age of digitally networked globalization.
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Six West African Artists Mine the Material World
EAST LANSING, Mich — These objects contain a discernible power, one that can be used to seed connections between cultures a world apart.
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Four Artworks for a Broken Time
ISTANBUL — “Broken times” are always periods of convoluted activity, of revolution, of transitions between religion and culture.